Oral Fire questions

Question 1

How do you prevent/minimise the risk of an Engine Room fire?

Answer 1

Good maintenance and house keeping practices,

lagging, JSAs, toolbox talks, drills

Question 2

You have an engine room fire and are evacuating. Actions on evacuation?

Answer 2

Remote closing valves, shut downs and dampers

Question 3

Procedure for dumping CO2.

Answer 3

1. Muster list
2. Close all air vents and hatches
3. Close fuel valves
4. Boundary cooling
5. Raise the alarm to inform of Co2 activation
6. Wait a minimum of 20 seconds before releasing
7. Wait for Co2 to put out the fire and cool
8. Treat the space as a confined space to re enter

Question 4

What do you need to do to the fire main if there is an Engine Room fire?

Answer 4

Shut the ER main isolation valve and use the emergency fire pump

Question 5

How would you re-enter the engine room after dumping the CO2?

Answer 5

Examiner was happy that the Candidate said her would treat it like a confined space entry.)

Question 6

If fire damage to the engine room was minimal/acceptable, would you start up again?

Answer 6

After discussing about putting the engine room back into service and that the Candidate would use fans to ventilate the engine room

Question 7

Where do you vent the engine room atmosphere to?

Answer 7

(Examiner wanted to hear that the atmosphere would be vented to an area away from the Muster Station).

Question 8

Sketch and describe a CO2 system.

Answer 8

1. Co2 cylinder/S and storage space
2. Pipe work to machinery space
3. Nozzles over hot spots
4. Activation alarm and light
5. Heat and smoke sensors

Question 9

What do you need to do to the fire main if there is an Engine Room fire?

Answer 9

Shut the ER main isolation valve and use the emergency fire pump.)

Question 10

A fire starts in a bilge. How would you manage this?

Answer 10

(The scenario went from this small fire escalating up the Master instructing CO2 to be released.)